History of the Alabama Cooperative Extension System
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A common perception is that the birth of Cooperative Extension followed passage of the Smith-Lever Act of 1914, which provided federal funds to land-grant universities to support Extension work. In a formal sense, this is true. Even so, the roots of Cooperative Extension extend as far back as the late 18th century, following the American Revolution, when affluent farmers first began organizing groups to sponsor educational meetings to disseminate useful farming information. In some cases, these lectures even were delivered by university professors a…mehr

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A common perception is that the birth of Cooperative Extension followed passage of the Smith-Lever Act of 1914, which provided federal funds to land-grant universities to support Extension work. In a formal sense, this is true. Even so, the roots of Cooperative Extension extend as far back as the late 18th century, following the American Revolution, when affluent farmers first began organizing groups to sponsor educational meetings to disseminate useful farming information. In some cases, these lectures even were delivered by university professors a practice that foreshadowed Cooperative Extension work more than a century later. These efforts became more formalized over time. By the 1850s, for example, many schools and colleges had begun holding farmer institutes public meetings where lecturers discussed new farming insights.